An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . asprellum. 24. G. bennudense. I. Galium verum L. Yellow Bedstraw. Ladys Bedstraw. Fig. 3928. Galium verum L. Sp. PI. 107. 1753. Perennial from a somewhat woody base, erect orascending, simple or branched, 6-22° high. Stemssmooth or minutely roughened; leaves in 6s or Ss,narrowly linear, 4-i2 long, about * wide, roughon the margins, at length de
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . asprellum. 24. G. bennudense. I. Galium verum L. Yellow Bedstraw. Ladys Bedstraw. Fig. 3928. Galium verum L. Sp. PI. 107. 1753. Perennial from a somewhat woody base, erect orascending, simple or branched, 6-22° high. Stemssmooth or minutely roughened; leaves in 6s or Ss,narrowly linear, 4-i2 long, about * wide, roughon the margins, at length deflexed; flowers yellow,the cymes in dense narrow panicles; lower branchesof the panicles longer than the internodes at anthe-sis; fruit usually glabrous, less than i broad. In waste places and fields. Maine and Ontario to Mas-sachusetts, southern New York, New Jersey and Penn-sylvania. Adventive or naturalized from Europe. Nativealso of Asia. May-Sept. Cheese-rennet. Curdwort. Bed-flower. Fleawort. Maids-hair. Yellow cleavers. OurLadys-bedstraw. Galium Wirtgeni F. Schultz, differs in having thelower branches of the panicle ve-ry short at anthesis, andis recorded as established in a meadow at Norfolk, 2. Galium parisiense L. Wall 3929- Galium parisiense L. Sp. PI. 108. 1753. Galium anglicum Huds. Fl. Angl. Ed. 2, 69. 1778. Annual, erect or ascending, very slender, much branched ;stem rough on the angles, 6-i2 high. Leaves in verticilsof about 6 (4-7), linear or linear-lanceolate, cuspidate,minutely scabrous on the margins and midrib, 2-~, long;cymes several-flowered, axillary and terminal on filiformpeduncles ; flowers minute, greenish-white; fruit glabrous,finely granular, less than \ wide. Along roadsides, Virginia and Tennessee,naturalized from Europe. June-Aug. Adventive or
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